Earl Scruggs
January 6, 1924 (100 years old) in Cleveland County, North Carolina, USA
Earl Eugene Scruggs was an American musician noted for popularizing a three-finger banjo picking style, now called "Scruggs style", which is a defining characteristic of bluegrass music. His three-finger style of playing was radically different from the traditional way the five-string banjo had previously been played.
Known For
Credits
- 2019 · Big Family: The Story of Bluegrass Music as Self (archive footage)
- 2011 · Give Me the Banjo as Self
- 2007 · Opry Video Classics: Pioneers as Self (archive footage)
- 2007 · The Best of the Flatt and Scruggs TV Show, Vol. 1 as Self
- 2003 · CMT Most Wanted Live: "A Very Special Acoustic Christmas" as Self
- 2003 · The Three Pickers as Self
- 1993 · Late Night with Conan O'Brien as Self - Musical Guest
- 1993 · Bill Monroe: Father of Bluegrass Music as Self
- 1991 · High Lonesome: The Story of Bluegrass Music as Self
- 1990 · American Music Shop as Self
- 1981 · The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies as Self
- 1975 · Austin City Limits as Self
- 1972 · The Midnight Special as Self
- 1972 · Bluegrass Country Soul as Self
- 1972 · Scruggs: A Festival of Music as Self
- 1965 · Country Music on Broadway as Self
- 1962 · The Beverly Hillbillies as Self